Risk events in the world, February 2026
This page tracks significant risk events worldwide in near real time — earthquakes, disaster alerts, armed conflict, unrest and government travel-advisory changes — combining data from the USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, UCDP, GDELT, ACLED and official travel-advisory sources. Browse what is happening now, or open the monthly and yearly archive for any country.
1357 events were recorded: 110 earthquakes, 2 disaster alerts, 1239 conflict events, and 6 unrest events.
1357 eventsSources: ucdp · usgs
1357 events· the world
ConflictEarthquake
- Colombia: 137
- Ukraine: 135
- Mexico: 120
- Nigeria: 111
- Pakistan: 72
- Earthquake
- 110
- 4 in the list
- Disaster
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 1,239
- 46 in the list
- Unrest
- 6
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
1357 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barrancabermeja, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barrancabermeja · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Indonesia
2 fatalities · Indonesia · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico
2 fatalities · Mexico · Papantla, Veracruz · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Papantla, Veracruz · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Chilpancingo De Los Bravo, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Chilpancingo De Los Bravo · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Non-state conflict in South Africa
3 fatalities · South Africa · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in South Sudan
4 fatalities · South Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in South Sudan
21 fatalities · South Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sudan
2 fatalities · Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Sudan
1 fatality · Sudan · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
One-sided violence in Dayr Az Zawr, Syria
1 fatality · Syria · Dayr Az Zawr · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Şanlıurfa (Sanliurfa, Urfa, Al-Ruha), Syria
2 fatalities · Syria · Şanlıurfa (Sanliurfa, Urfa, Al-Ruha) · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kostyantynivka, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Kostyantynivka · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Kramatorsk, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Kramatorsk · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
State-based conflict in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine
1 fatality · Ukraine · Bila Tserkva · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Earthquake
M5.4 — Vanuatu region
M5.4 · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.3 — 73 km ENE of Mutsu, Japan
M5.3 · Hakodate · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.8 — 38 km NE of Bāzārak, Afghanistan
M5.8 · Afghanistan · Kabul · Source: usgs
- Earthquake
M5.0 — West Chile Rise
M5.0 · Source: usgs
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
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Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Barranquilla, Colombia
1 fatality · Colombia · Barranquilla · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
Reference
What these risk types mean
- Earthquake
- Significant earthquakes (magnitude 4.5+) reported by the USGS.
- Disaster
- Active floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and wildfires reported by GDACS and NASA EONET.
- Conflict
- Armed conflict events above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from UCDP and GDELT.
- Unrest
- Unrest events — protests, strikes, riots — above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from GDELT and ACLED.
- Advisory
- Official government travel-advisory level changes for a country.